Traite de La Couleur

1913. ROSENSTIEHL, M.A. Traité de la Couleur au Point de Vue Physique, Physiologique et Esthétique Comprenant l'exposé de l'état de la question de l'Harmonie des Couleurs avec 56 figures et 14 planches coloriées. xvi, 278 pp., plus 2 pp. of ads. Illustrated with 14 colour plates including 4 tipped-in pochoir designs and 24 dyed fabric samples. 8vo., 245 x 160 mm, bound in publisher's cloth. Paris: H. Dunod, 1913. First Edition. "This book expands upon the author's important brochure, Les premiers elements de la science de la couleur (Mulhouse, 1884), which had helped spread knowledge of Maxwell color disks, the adjustable colored discs, which when spun at high speed form a single color. Rosenstiehl's book, published at the height of cubism, was the acknowledged inspiration for the color system of Julie Beaudeneau which, in turn, was used by Jacques Villon" (R. Herbert, "A Color Bibliography," Yale Lib. Gazette, July 1974, p. 45.) Birren Collection 560.